# TRIC-DT Cross-Theme Project Scoping
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Objectives collected at research away day:
- To establish a shared, interdisciplinary focus across the cluster
- To enable a DT demonstrator (eg for next years AIUK)
- To build on current projects like DTBase & AutoEmulate
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## Outline Project Information
*Suggested initiative*
**Designing a Cross-Domain Pipeline for Open and Reproducible Digital Twins**
A domain-agnostic digital twinning pipeline would establish a shared focus by integrating research across the different themes. It could provide the backbone for the DT demonstrator. It should build on and extend current projects by incorporating their methodologies.
## Features
**What is the MVP for a cross-domain DT pipeline?**
- Prerequisite is an overlap between themes
- Hypothesis: individual DT tech stacks can be mapped onto each other
- steps to test this hypothesis:
- get everyone together to decide on a shared goal
- get everyone to learn about each others work
- ask people to step-by-step outline a method to achieve their goal
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- Do we need a common code framework that people can collaborate on?
- is DTBase a viable option here?
- How easy is it for researchers to adapt DT Base to fit their own Dt pipelines?
- Are DTBase visualisation components sufficient to support our objective of demonstrating TRIC-DT research at AIUK?
- Which components of a cross-domain DT pipeline is the TRIC best placed to deliver?
- There are already sophisticated simulation platforms, how will this pipeline distinguish itself from those?
- Can we gain a clear idea of current domain-specific DT 'workflows', their overlap & differences?
## Exclusions
**What is NOT part of the MVP?**
- Do we want to build out an fully functional operational platform for digital twins?
## Challenges and Risks
- How to we ensure researchers are enabeld to feed into a common code framework?
- How transferrable are current bespoke pipelines?
- How well does this task align with researcher's current objectives & capacity?
- we need to specify value proposition for PDRAs to feed in here.
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## Users
- Who would use a cross-domain digital twins pipeline and what for?
## Success Criteria
- How will a cross-domain pipeline increase reproducibility for digital twins?
## Pipeline